Healthcare Costs

We received word today that HSR has been nominated for the Maryland Tech Council’s (TCM) Emerging Company award, based in large part on our GIS platform, GeoHealth Dashboard. We are truly honored and humbled by this nomination. The GeoHealth Dashboard is a Geographic Information System (GIS) with a data analytic engine that merges demographic data […]

In 2013, Medicare learned through a Congressional report prepared by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) that it was paying substantially more for certain medical procedures in an outpatient setting than the program paid for procedures performed in a physician’s office. An outpatient setting is defined as being a medical facility that is more than […]

Up until recently, most discussions on improving the US healthcare system focused almost solely on medical care. However, non-medical factors may lead to poor health and poor health outcomes. These factors, called social determinants of health, have only recently started receiving attention, and include (among others): • Living conditions – condition of housing • Isolation […]

Escalating healthcare costs are driving companies to collect and analyze “big data” on their employees in an effort to predict who may be at risk of expensive health complications and encourage those employees to alter their behavior to make healthier life choices – such as diet, activity level, etc. Perhaps an individual’s online activity, purchasing […]